To ease running milter-greylist with a chrooted postfix smtpd please allow changing
ownership and mode for the milter socket by the init script (idea was taken from
spamass-milter) - the attached patch does this by introducing two new variables
($SOCKETMODE and $SOCKETOWNER) in default file and using their values in the init
script.

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
milter-greylist, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

milter-greylist_4.3.5-1.debian.tar.gz
  to main/m/milter-greylist/milter-greylist_4.3.5-1.debian.tar.gz
milter-greylist_4.3.5-1.dsc
  to main/m/milter-greylist/milter-greylist_4.3.5-1.dsc
milter-greylist_4.3.5-1_i386.deb
  to main/m/milter-greylist/milter-greylist_4.3.5-1_i386.deb
milter-greylist_4.3.5.orig.tar.gz
  to main/m/milter-greylist/milter-greylist_4.3.5.orig.tar.gz



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 554239@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Paul Martin <pm@debian.org> (supplier of updated milter-greylist package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Format: 1.8
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:57:28 +0000
Source: milter-greylist
Binary: milter-greylist
Architecture: source i386
Version: 4.3.5-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Paul Martin <pm@debian.org>
Changed-By: Paul Martin <pm@debian.org>
Description:
 milter-greylist - Greylist milter for sendmail
Closes: 554239 573936
Changes:
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 .
   * New upstream release
   * Switch to dpkg-source 3.0 (quilt) format
   * Add DEP-3 tags to all patches.
   * Update to Debian Policy 3.8.4 (no changes)
   * New patch:
     + patches/573936-dump_lex: Fixes parsing a dump with some awkward
       non-RFC822 email addresses. (Closes: #573936)
   * Updated patch:
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We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
milter-greylist, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

milter-greylist_4.3.5-2.debian.tar.gz
  to main/m/milter-greylist/milter-greylist_4.3.5-2.debian.tar.gz
milter-greylist_4.3.5-2.dsc
  to main/m/milter-greylist/milter-greylist_4.3.5-2.dsc
milter-greylist_4.3.5-2_i386.deb
  to main/m/milter-greylist/milter-greylist_4.3.5-2_i386.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 554239@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Paul Martin <pm@debian.org> (supplier of updated milter-greylist package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)
Format: 1.8
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:10:19 +0000
Source: milter-greylist
Binary: milter-greylist
Architecture: source i386
Version: 4.3.5-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Paul Martin <pm@debian.org>
Changed-By: Paul Martin <pm@debian.org>
Description:
 milter-greylist - Greylist milter for sendmail
Closes: 554239
Changes:
 milter-greylist (4.3.5-2) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Updated patches:
     + patches/greylist.conf: Make the init script parse the config file
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reopen 554239
thanks

I think this says it all:

milter-greylist (4.3.5-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Revert back to 4.3.5-1 code and put on a brown paper bag.
    The changes don't work.

Hi Paul,

it seems like I have a working solution:

mkdir /var/spool/postfix/milter-greylist/
chmod 2755 /var/spool/postfix/milter-greylist/
chown greylist.postfix /var/spool/postfix/milter-greylist/

in /etc/milter-greylist/greylist.conf add a line:
socket "/var/spool/postfix/milter-greylist/milter-greylist.sock" 660

in /etc/default/milter-greylist add a line:
SOCKET="/var/spool/postfix/milter-greylist/milter-greylist.sock"

(maybe you should think about dropping /etc/default/milter-greylist because this duplicates all the setting from /etc/milter-greylist/greylist.conf)

Kind regards
Harald Jenny

Hello,

I have attached a new patch which will solve the problem for the usage
of milter-greylist with postfix (with a chrooted smtpd(8)).